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The Hawk in the Rain by Ted Hughes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Modern Classics Ser.
This multi-award winning collection, the first from Ted Hughes, has at its heart the mixture of beauty and violence in the natural world. Dedicated to Sylvia Plath, Hawk in the Rain is a stunning collection of poems on the themes of competition and the struggle for survival. Hughes would go on to become ...Show more
The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life by Bettany Hughes
$59.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
We think the way we do because Socrates thought the way he did. His aphorism 'The unexamined life is not worth living' may have originated twenty-five centuries ago, but it is a founding principle of modern life. Socrates lived and contributed to a city that nurtured key ingredients of contemporary civi ...Show more
The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life by Bettany Hughes
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
We think the way we do because Socrates thought the way he did. His aphorism 'The unexamined life is not worth living' may have originated twenty-five centuries ago, but it is a founding principle of modern life. Socrates lived and contributed to a city that nurtured key ingredients of contemporary civi ...Show more
The Idea of Home: Autobiographical Essays by John Hughes
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Category: Biography & Memoir
A collection of autobiographical essays in which John Huges reflects on growing up in Cessnock, in a household rules by memories of the Ukgraine, which his mother and grandparents had to flee during the Second World War.
The Illustrated Letters of Jane Austen by Penelope Hughes-Hallett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A beautifully illustrated account of the letters and correspondence of Jane Austen. It has been said that Jane Austen the woman and Jane Austen the author are all of a piece, and nowhere is this more evident to the lovers of her novels than in the pages of her letters. This handsome celebration of Auste ...Show more
The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
$14.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
A children's story in five nights. Mankind must put a stop to the dreadful destruction caused by the Iron Man. A trap is set for him, but he cannot be kept down. Then, when a terrible monster from outer space threatens to lay waste to the planet, it is the Iron Man who finds a way to save the world.
The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
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Category: Children's & YA
"A classic is something utterly strange and original, and yet as deeply familiar and necessary as your own hands. The Iron Man is like no other story in the world and, fifty years after its first publication, we need it as much as ever." - Philip Pullman Part modern fairy tale, part science-fiction myt ...Show more
The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
Stunning illustrations by Chris Mould make this one of the most exciting editions of The Iron Man to be published. The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff.Where had he come from? Nobody knows.How was he made? Nobody knows.Mankind must put a stop to the dreadful destruction by the Iron Man and set a tr ...Show more
The Iron Wolf (Collected Animal Poems #1) by Ted Hughes
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Category: Poetry
The Iron Wolf, the Iron Wolf Stands on the world with jagged fur.The rusty Moon rolls through the sky.The iron river cannot stir.The iron wind leaks out a cry Animals of air, land and sea are brilliantly imagined in this perfect introduction for young readers to the work of Ted Hughes. Part of Hughes' ...Show more
The Iron Woman by Ted Hughes
$14.95 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
The Iron Woman has come to take revenge on mankind. Full of the power and fantastic imagination of his book "The Iron Man", this sequel from the late Poet Laureate is a cry against the relentless pollution of the Earth's waterways through the dumping of industrial waste.
The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The story of Gabriele D'Annunzio, poet, daredevil - and Fascist. In September 1919 Gabriele D'Annunzio, successful poet and occasional politician, declared himself Commandante of the city of Fiume in modern day Croatia. His intention - to establish a utopia based on his fascist and artistic ideals. It w ...Show more
The Rattle Bag by Ted Hughes; Seamus Heaney (Editor)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The Rattle Bag is an anthology of poetry (mostly in English but occasionally in translation) for general readers and students of all ages and backgrounds. These poems have been selected by the simple yet telling criteria that they are the personal favorites of the editors, themselves two of contemporary ...Show more